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Lost in the IG report is this icky bit

"According to the testimony of the Attorney General in the IG report, nine days before the election she and the FBI Director discussed how a “deep and visceral hatred of Secretary Clinton” "

https://www.dailykos.com/st...

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Add the strategic decision of Hillary's campaign and DNC strategists to concoct the "pied-piper candidate" strategy, which required promotion of Trump so as to pull all the other Rep candidates to the right, which will make them all unelectable and which will give Hillary an unsurmountable lead with the electorate, and get the full force of the media behind this strategy. That strategy worked to a fault, as the saying goes.As a blurb from Salon put it:The Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee called for using far-right candidates "as a cudgel to move the more established candidates further to the right." Clinton's camp insisted that Trump and other extremists should be "elevated" to "leaders of the pack" and media outlets should be told to "take them seriously."

Plus the originator of the whole idea: husband and ex-president Bill Clinton encouraged Trump to run while they were playing some rounds of golf.

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Yeah, if you say you are nauseous, what you're really saying is that you are nauseating to other people. All you gotta do is say "I'm nauseated."

And yep, he used it correctly!

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I thought he did that already?

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Andrew McCabe

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Andrew McCabe

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I might not want to share a glass of Chardonnay with Hillary Clinton but I've never understood what she's done to p*ss so many people off.

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Devin Nunes just admitted on Faux Noise that those "rogue" FBI agents were senior FBI officials in the New York Field Office who informed HIM of their finding Hillary emails on Weiner's laptop. He was a g*d damn Trump surrogate at the time. He says they were the "good" FBI agents.

Whoever those FBI agents are they need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent and denied their pensions.

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No, are they really sweating.

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That could have been the "thorn in the side" that he mentioned.

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If it was a Greek tragedy, he'd be put into an altered state by some god or other, decapitate Eric Trump or Trump Jr. and proudly display the head to Congress.

http://www.ancient-literatu...

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"Tragedy" used to have specific meanings, mostly literary. For as long as I've been old enough to pay attention (some time in the second Eisenhower administration) the media have used the word to mean "anything bad that happens."

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Interesting character. His life turns to shit, he gets a chance to ask his god why and his god, instead of replying, struts around bragging about his accomplishments and how totally awesome he is.

Explains the evangelical Trump worship when you think about it.

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Not long after the election I was surprised at what sore winners the MAGAts and their enablers were. And still are, 19 months later.

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Not so much a scandal as a searchlight revealing how out of touch with its market the company was.

"Oh, but change is a part of life!!!!!!""So are mosquitoes and syphilis."

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Tried Greek style yogurt once. The only differences were the higher price and a curiously muted taste.

But hey, plenty of suckers bought into the gluten free fad so not surprising that it sells.

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